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Hillary Clinton: "To me this is a serious discussion about a serious issue" (Original Post) Rose Siding Mar 2016 OP
Many folks thought Black DUers were hearing things ... 1StrongBlackMan Mar 2016 #1
No. Or yes Rose Siding Mar 2016 #3
LOL ... 1StrongBlackMan Mar 2016 #6
This may be why many women BlueMTexpat Mar 2016 #7
No doubt ... No doubt. 1StrongBlackMan Mar 2016 #9
Maybe some PP, NARAL, or CodePink members can crash a Sanders event and get some answers? nt CalvinballPro Mar 2016 #2
It is a Huge Issue Haveadream Mar 2016 #4
It looks as if there are some BlueMTexpat Mar 2016 #5
Wait for it ... Wait for it ... 1StrongBlackMan Mar 2016 #8
I haven't been hidden. BlueMTexpat Mar 2016 #11
She's right. SaschaHM Mar 2016 #10
I had not thought about that ... 1StrongBlackMan Mar 2016 #12
Must be nice to not have to personally worry about abortion access Kber Mar 2016 #13
Women's reproductive health is a HUGE issue, not a "distraction" ladym55 Mar 2016 #14

Rose Siding

(32,623 posts)
3. No. Or yes
Thu Mar 31, 2016, 03:49 PM
Mar 2016

You heard things, real things.

Income "equality" is not the gift from which all blessings flow. Juxtaposed with this issue, and considering our 78 cents on the dollar, the thing I'm hearing from him is All Paychecks Matter.

BlueMTexpat

(15,349 posts)
7. This may be why many women
Thu Mar 31, 2016, 04:08 PM
Mar 2016

have been hearing many of the same things that Black DUers are even when we are not specifically POC ourselves.

Haveadream

(1,630 posts)
4. It is a Huge Issue
Thu Mar 31, 2016, 03:59 PM
Mar 2016

and not just for protection from invasive physical aspects of denied Reproductive Rights. It also has massive economic implications that resonate through communities and disproportionately affect women and families with already low incomes. One of the surest predictors of childhood poverty and illness is having a single mother. That reality is one millions of the poor experience. The fact is that Republicans will do everything they can to keep women and children living in poverty and denying women the right to an abortion is a perfect way to do that. Allowing Trump to be elected and his impact on this issue would be devastating for millions of people.

Huge

BlueMTexpat

(15,349 posts)
5. It looks as if there are some
Thu Mar 31, 2016, 04:05 PM
Mar 2016

BBros Twitter followers who believe that Hillary is "running scared" when she makes comments like this.

I'm with her when she says this too:

And I know, given what's happening in states across this country, we need a president who is passionate about this, seeing it as a top priority because women's health is under assault across America.



 

1StrongBlackMan

(31,849 posts)
8. Wait for it ... Wait for it ...
Thu Mar 31, 2016, 04:10 PM
Mar 2016

"Why are you saying Bernie doesn't care about women" arrivals in 3 ... 2 ... 1 ...

SaschaHM

(2,897 posts)
10. She's right.
Thu Mar 31, 2016, 04:12 PM
Mar 2016

What Sanders and his defenders don't get is that of all the issues brought up on the campaign trail, reproductive rights is the area where a President will have the most influence. Barring a filibuster of a supreme court nominee, you don't need the a filibuster-proof Senate and the House to protect or destroy Reproductive Rights. You just need the Senate and a supreme court vacancy. Something that the next president has good chance at having.

Kber

(5,043 posts)
13. Must be nice to not have to personally worry about abortion access
Thu Mar 31, 2016, 04:40 PM
Mar 2016

Or personally worry about police racial profiling

Or personally worry about anti-gay religious freedom laws.

Know what else might be nice? Worrying about it even if it does not personally effect you.

ladym55

(2,577 posts)
14. Women's reproductive health is a HUGE issue, not a "distraction"
Thu Mar 31, 2016, 05:53 PM
Mar 2016

Seriously? Bernie truly has only one set of talking points that matter to him. That's a shame. As others have already pointed out, single mothers are often at the bottom end of income inequality. They and their children suffer big time because they lacked access to contraception and abortion.

Here in Ohio, John Kasich (you know the Republican everyone says is so reasonable) just defunded PP. Ohio has one of the WORST infant mortality rates in the nation, so cutting PP funding makes all sorts of sense.

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